2022, La Chablisienne, CHABLIS, Grand Cru, 'Les Clos'The 2022 Chablis Les Clos Grand Cru has a reserved nose: crushed limestone, petrichor, hints of dew speckled Granny Smith emerging with time. The aromatics almost tease you. The palate is powerful, nearly burly, mouth filling malic fruit; what it lacks in nuance, it compensates with sheer brute force. It has a fine, malic, peppery finish, although there's little on the aftertaste. Tasted blind at the BIVB tasting in Chablis. 91 Neal Martin, Vinous

sage and dried herbs open with a bit of coaxing

Oily and textured in the glass

but also shows a tad more depth

Slightly high-toned and showy

It's clear that this is hugely concentrated

It’s quite concentrated on the finish if maybe missing the finesse that I discerned on the previous vintage

Ramiro Ibanez and Willy Pérez are a talented duo producing one of the region's great white wines

had the rare opportunity to taste a 1869 hermitagé

More crimson than ruby

maintains the attractive orchard fruit

fleshing out nicely

50yr old vines on crumbly salmon-red granite and manganese slopes